I Ching Quotes

#1. The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

Kelly Link

#3. Even weird breed of cat like Nazi Germany comprehensible to I Ching.

Philip K. Dick

#4. Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.

Chick Corea

#6. I decide to go out and spend all my money on underwear, then throw them about the room to
decide my fate like a satiny, lace-gusseted I Ching. Let the gods of Beau Bra decide.

Belle De Jour

#7. The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.

Fritjof Capra

#8. I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are.

Andres Neuman

#9. My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. It may occasion surprise that the decree of a temporal power sufficed to give the classics a position that can be compared in other cultures to the place of sacred scriptures inspired by divine revelation.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#11. The situations depicted in the Book of Changes are the primary data of life
what happens to everybody, every day, and what is simple and easy to understand.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#12. Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#13. Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out-paces all things: we call it "thought." I can fill a room a with light before I'm anywhere near the switch.

Laurie Perez

#14. It is true that we are in charge of our imaginations, and by using them to imagine wonderful futures for ourselves, and by acting on that basis, it will follow, unerringly, that for us, it will be so.

Wu Wei

#15. To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.

Wu Wei

#16. To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.

Wu Wei

#17. We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made.

I-Ching

#18. To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.

Wu Wei

#19. The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego.

Carol Anthony

#20. When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

Eddie Huang

#21. There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of double lines are derrived from a still later anaysis.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#22. To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze
"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Deepak Chopra

#23. The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment - that is the way.

Wu Wei

#24. I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

Gail Carriger

#25. To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task

I-Ching

#26. Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.

I-Ching

#27. The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.

Wu Wei

#28. To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.

Wu Wei

#29. I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.

I.M. Pei

#30. I never read the paper myself. Why bother? It's the same old shit day in and day out, dictators beating the ching-chong out of people weaker than they are, men in uniforms beating the ching-chong out of soccer balls or footballs, politicians kissing babies and kissing ass.

Stephen King

#31. If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

Philip K. Dick

#32. But I am dead certain
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that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side ... and had them start off screaming, BOO!

Jim Butcher

#33. A quiet-hearted person awakes with a smile on his lips and an eagerness in his heart for the day ahead.

Wu Wei

#34. Chaos is another name for opportunity

I-Ching